| 单词 |
beady |
| 释义 |
beady, a.|ˈbiːdɪ|
[f. bead n. + -y1.]
1. a. Beadlike; (of eyes) small, round and glittering.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey i. iv, Small black, beady eyes. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xix. (1853) 149 Mrs. Bute's beady eyes. 1879Black Macleod of D. I. 170 The ugly brute, with its beady eyes and its black snout.
b. Comb., as beady-eyed a.
1873M. F. Mahony Chron. Fermors I. xiii. 249 That beady-eyed,..lanthorn-cheeked little lady. 1897Kipling in Pearson's Mag. Dec. 615/2 The 600 quick-footed, beady-eyed rank and file. 1904Daily Chron. 15 Sept. 4/4 A beady-eyed inscrutable stare.
2. a. Covered with beads (of liquid, etc.).
1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy 243 While he treads painfully with stillest step And beady brow.
b. Of a garment, material, etc.
1892Longman's Mag. May 76 Beady and buttony girls. 1897Daily News 25 June 3/1 Cheap black, sheeny cloth, very beady, much trimmed.
3. Full of bubbles, frothy.
1881Harper's Mag. LXIII. 488 Creamy and beady scum. |
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